Elie Wiesel wrote the autobiography “Night” to state the experience of people during the time period of the holocaust. Elie stated that, “that of witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory”. He wrote the book for everyone to realize that innocent people getting killing can really break someone’s heart. He once said, “ and yet having lived through the experience, one couldn’t keep silent no matter how difficult, if not impossible, was to speak”. He wrote this book to share the experience that he went through in his childhood.
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
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Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 and died in 1945. Goebbels was Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda and one of the most important and influential people in Nazi Germany.
1. To ensure success, Goebbels had to work with the SS and Gestapo and Albert Speer.
2. Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933.
3. And as a result of this policy, Nazi Germany introduced a system of censorship.
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
The Soviet Union, Great Britain, Bulgaria, and neutral states like Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden.
The Nazis defined Jews as a “race.” Regarding the Jewish religion as irrelevant, the basically hated the Jews to there gut and that drove the “Jewish race,” like other races, to struggle to survive by expansion at the expense of other races.
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
The Germans ordered Jews in ghettos to wear identifying badges or armbands and also required many Jews to perform forced labor for the German Reich. Daily life in the ghettos was administered by Nazi-appointed Jewish council. A ghetto police-force enforced the orders of the German authorities of the Jewish councils, to killing centers. Jewish police officials, like Jewish council members, served at the whim of the German authorities. The Germans did not hesitate to kill Jewish policemen who were perceived to have failed to carry out orders.
The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories."
Adolf Hitler committed suicide near the end of the war.
24 defendants were selected to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership. Most of the defendants were highly sophisticated professionals, yet they were also men who committed almost unspeakable crimes.
The IMT declared to the world that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense for criminal acts. The trials also rejected claims that heads of state should be exempt from prosecution.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Night
Night Dark and horrible Beat, hurt, and bled Like the yelling of a cheerleader and as dark as midnight It was the grim reaper’s party. Weeping Along paths of darkness and death
Table of Contents
Bryce W. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
The Preface and Forward of Night
Elie Wiesel wrote the autobiography “Night” to state the experience of people during the time period of the holocaust. Elie stated that, “that of witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory”. He wrote the book for everyone to realize that innocent people getting killing can really break someone’s heart. He once said, “ and yet having lived through the experience, one couldn’t keep silent no matter how difficult, if not impossible, was to speak”. He wrote this book to share the experience that he went through in his childhood.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web SearchBackground Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
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Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
HYPERLINK "http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm" http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 and died in 1945. Goebbels was Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda and one of the most important and influential people in Nazi Germany.
1. To ensure success, Goebbels had to work with the SS and Gestapo and Albert Speer.
2. Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933.
3. And as a result of this policy, Nazi Germany introduced a system of censorship.
Wannsee Conference
What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen?
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Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
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Kristallnacht is the Nazis staged vicious pogroms—state sanctioned, anti-Jewish riots—against the Jewish community of Germany.
Kristallnacht happened seventy-one years ago, on November 9–10, 1938.
15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government official attended the Wannsee Conference.
The Final Solution was the code name for the deliberate of the European Jews.
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
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CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
The Soviet Union, Great Britain, Bulgaria, and neutral states like Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden.
The Nazis defined Jews as a “race.” Regarding the Jewish religion as irrelevant, the basically hated the Jews to there gut and that drove the “Jewish race,” like other races, to struggle to survive by expansion at the expense of other races.
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
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The three types of ghettos were: Closed ghettos, Open ghettos, and Destruction ghettos. The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw ghetto where over 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles.
The Germans ordered Jews in ghettos to wear identifying badges or armbands and also required many Jews to perform forced labor for the German Reich. Daily life in the ghettos was administered by Nazi-appointed Jewish council. A ghetto police-force enforced the orders of the German authorities of the Jewish councils, to killing centers. Jewish police officials, like Jewish council members, served at the whim of the German authorities. The Germans did not hesitate to kill Jewish policemen who were perceived to have failed to carry out orders.
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
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The difference between labor camps and death/extermination camps are that these camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps built primarily or exclusively for mass murder.
The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories."
Who liberated the camps?
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What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
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What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
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Soviet forces liberated the concentration camps.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide near the end of the war.
24 defendants were selected to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership. Most of the defendants were highly sophisticated professionals, yet they were also men who committed almost unspeakable crimes.
The IMT declared to the world that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense for criminal acts. The trials also rejected claims that heads of state should be exempt from prosecution.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
NightNight
Dark and horrible
Beat, hurt, and bled
Like the yelling of a cheerleader and as dark as midnight
It was the grim reaper’s party.
Weeping
Along paths of darkness and death